Important People
200: Name the man who was the leader of German unification.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
This was originally used to pump water out of coal mines, but then becomes the basis for so many other major inventions of the 19th century.
STEAM ENGINE
What country gained control over both the Italian and German states as a result of the Congress of Vienna?
AUSTRIA
The creation of the Industrial Revolution that had workers add parts to a product that moves along the belt from one work station to the next?
ASSEMBLY LINE
What term is used to describe a loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others?
NATIONALISM
What man, during the age of nationalism in Europe, came up with the idea of the “survival of the fittest?”
CHARLES DARWIN
Name the inventor of the device that allowed human voices to go across continents!
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
What was the one island that Austria did not gain back control after the initial movement freed the northern states from Austrian control?
SARDINIA
__________________________ is the mother of invention
Necessity
Louis Philippe’s nickname was what fruit?
PEAR
Name the person who invented the cotton gin.
ELI WHITNEY
George Stephenson was known as the inventor of what?
LOCOMOTIVE OR TRAINS
Bismarck promoted the idea of “___________________ and _________________,” which built up the Prussian army to defeat the Austrians.
BLOOD AND IRON
What type of economic system allows for production to be privately owned and operated for a private profit in a free-market economy?
CAPITALISM
Where was the first act of Nationalistic revolutions that actually happened in Europe and what empire were they trying to break away from?
GREECE AND OTTOMAN
What man invented a steam power machine that helped decrease the cost and time of production of steel?
HENRY BESSEMER
What invention first allowed for rapid communication across continents in 1844?
Telegraph
Northern and Southern Italy were unified by two different men. Name the two men and what part of Italy they helped unify.
NORTH: MAZZINI, SOUTH: GARIBALDI
What were the three major advantages that Britain had that made them the location of the start of the Industrial Revolution?
RAW MATERIALS (COAL AND IRON), GEOGRAPHY, COLONIES
Bismarck decided to use a technique called ______________________, which stated that he will get things done using the factors that were given to him. Basically, “if you can’t beat them, join them.”
REALPOLITIK
The steam engine was invented by who? But perfected by what inventor?
THOMAS NEWCOMEN AND JAMES WATT
In the mid-1700s, these two inventions were spinning machines to make more yarn. One was used in the home and the other was used in factories.
SPINNING JENNY AND WATER FRAME
The Franco-Prussia War of 1871 was a feud between France and South Germany over what geographic territory that will also become important during the World Wars?
ALSACE-LORAINE
Describe how the Industrial Revolution used cheap coal to keep coal cheap.
STEAM ENGINE GOT WATER OUT OF MINES, MADE COAL STAY CHEAP, ENGINE IS POWERED BY COAL.
The revolutions of 1848 ended what age in Europe? An age of relative peace created by the balance of power and the Congress of Vienna.
METTERNICH